My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.

Back in 1994 the Clinton Administration decided to help the poor children in the United States of America by improving a pretty successful existing vaccination program. To begin with Hillary Clinton, who headed this particular program, declared a crisis existed.

Supposedly there were millions of children who were slipping through the cracks and not receiving the protection vaccinations would provide. The truth was there was no crisis. The poor, the uninsured, the under insured, and Native Americans have access to free vaccinations through public health clinics already. In fact over 96% of the nations children were insured at the time of this so called crisis.

But wait, there is more. Undaunted by the facts, Hillary continued in her attempt to show us how the village can care for the health of its children. She established a huge national distribution center with a large, government run warehouse in New Jersey. Soon vaccine manufacturers were shipping vaccine to the warehouse. All seemed peachy until a representative of the vaccine manufacturer noticed the warehouse wasn't refrigerated. Without refrigeration the vaccine stored in the warehouse would become stale and actually present a risk to the children inoculated. Additionally by only having one warehouse, the system was a disaster waiting to happen. A simple warehouse fire could wipe out the supply of vaccine for the entire country. Well the central distribution of vaccine from this warehouse was becoming such a public relations nightmare that it was abandoned.

But wait, there is more! Several states including Texas and New York had modeled their own programs to dove tail with Hillary's scheme. They had made no provisions to acquire vaccine of their own, and now were in a state of panic.

At last there was a vaccine crisis. The fact that it had been caused by Hillary Clinton seemed to go unnoticed by the main stream press.

But wait, there is more! All in all the Clinton Administration blew $460 million dollars on this vaccination plan. They purchased 41% more oral polio vaccine than they needed and 13 million doses of Rubella vaccine, 60% more doses than all the unvaccinated kids in the United States.

This program was so bad that even Ted Kennedy, who is not known for being particularly conservative about anything, called it "crazy".

Despite all this Hillary, through her husband Bill, stubbornly pushed on with her plan asking for $891 million in the 1996 budget "for the children".

This prompted the following editorial in NEWSDAY, "The Clinton administration's nationwide child immunization program could be viewed as good intentions gone awry. That would be charitable. Realistically, it is a political and administrative failure that is emblematic of a blockheaded commitment to liberal ideology that sometimes characterizes this administration ...

The Clintons insisted that cost, driven by price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, was the reason many low-income and uninsured families failed to get their kids shots. In reality, free vaccines already were available through federal and state programs ...

Now a highly critical GAO study has determined (to almost no one's surprise) that the cost of vaccines isn't a big problem and that the best solution may be an outreach program, increasing parents' awareness of the need to have their children immunized and making clinics more accessible.

Amazingly, the administration still clings to its program." There may be some of you who upon reading this are simply amused. But with the recent announcement by Hillary Clinton of a "Silent Child Care Crisis", all of us should be concerned for the future and safety of our children.

Hillary's Vaccine Shortage

August 15, 2003 The Wall Street Journal(EXCERPT)

Everyone knows America's vaccine industry is in serious trouble, with an ever dwindling number of producers and recent severe vaccine shortages. What everyone also should know is that the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine has now pinned much of the blame on Hillary Rodham Clinton .

[T]hey identify as a fundamental cause of the problem the fact that the government purchases 55% of the childhood vaccine market at forced discount prices. The result has been "declining financial incentives to develop and produce vaccines."

The root of this government role goes back to August 1993, when Congress passed Mrs. Clinton's Vaccines for Children program. A dream of Hillary's friends at the Children's Defense Fund, her vaccines plan was to use federal power to ensure universal immunization. So the government agreed to purchase a third of the national vaccine supply (the Clintons had pushed for 100%) at a forced discount of half price, then distribute it to doctors to deliver to the poor and the un- and under-insured.

The result is a cautionary tale for anyone who favors national health care. Already very high in 1993, childhood vaccination rates barely budged. A General Accounting Office report at the time noted that "vaccines are already free" for the truly needy through programs like Medicaid. Meanwhile, however, the Hillary project dealt the vaccine industry another financial body blow.

Thirty years ago, the Institute report notes, 25 companies produced vaccines for the U.S. market. Today only five remain, and a number of critical shots have only one producer. Recent years have brought shortages of numerous vaccines, including those for whooping cough, diphtheria and chicken pox .

The Institute of Medicine panel deserves credit for highlighting the threat to vaccine makers from government price controls. Mrs. Clinton is a powerful Senator now with Presidential ambitions. It took some guts for the Institute panel to say in effect that one of her pet projects is a bust .

he smartestwoman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.

hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."

(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")

Hillary in Aviary

by Mia T, November 2000, sometime before "the first Tuesday after the first Monday"

"Bird of paradise" would have been a brilliant wrong answer for the New-York-state-bird question; in one fell swoop it would have flattered the necessary constituency, rendered hillary's cheating marginally believable and suggested a quick, secure, creative mind.

But the obsessively perfectionistic dodo wasn't able to fake even one wrong answer in the Letterman phony "pop quiz," a nostalgic electuary of "Twenty-One" fraud and (Groucho) Marxist left-wing crow.

Instead, this documented incompetent with no apparent creative or analytic (not to mention thespian) skills gushed forth with a lame--"It's the bluebird--I know that" --globally exposing herself to be the corrupt clown that the sentient among us already know she is.

It is no accident--and the Sheehy hagiography notwithstanding, it is certainly not because of any patriarchal society--that this reflexive kleptocrat never sought office. She never ran simply because she is a perfectionist and an incompetent who cannot tolerate personal (as opposed to bill-related) criticism, witness the prescreened, heavily controlled, sycophantic crowds, her pre-programmed, totally scripted appearances (or, alternatively, her totally mute "listening tour"), her unavailability to the press, indeed, her "bluebird."

Thus, the question begging to be asked is this:

Why would this compulsively perfectionistic grotesquerie allow herself to be unambiguously exposed as the utter incompetent and fraud and fool and horror that she is?

And why would this self-proclaimed protector of "the children" prolong her own child's profound trauma by forcing her own bottom-heavy self, soiled in its own right, onto the political stage?

The answer, I believe, resides more in liberty loss than in power gain.

Simply put, she is not running for office; she is running from indictment.

And I fear Starr successor, Robert Ray, is unable to catch her... Or catch on. (On second thought, maybe the problem is that he does....)

Ray's recent statement , " I have been charged with responsibly conducting the work of this office. Some of my responsibility is to ensure that there is no untoward effect on the political process," both confirms and encourages this latest round of clinton raping, pillaging, despoiling, destroying.

Will this nightmare never end?

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2000, 2005

the principal being more worthless even than its phantom proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former shapeless to boot

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For the most part, missus clinton operates in absentia, by proxy.

You rarely see her. You almost never hear her. (Think of it as the hillary! 2000 'listening tour' extended ad nauseam.)

And in those rare instances where she does actually speak, the 'event' is always prearranged, prescripted, prepeopled and preprogrammed by the clinton political machine.

If you stop and think about it, the American voter hasn't ever had the opportunity to see, hear, examine the actual merchandise...much less contemplate the return policy.

To allow missus clinton to pose as a moderate without overly enraging her radical leftist comrades (Cindy Sheehan excepted).

PROXY SQUARED

The clintons, as is their wont, are now taking this proxy scheme to even more outrageous extremes. The latest: an actual hillary clinton proxy presidency, populated on both sides of the camera by assorted rodham and clinton ex-staffers, sycophants and would-be felons, witness the latest hire.

'Commander-in-Chief,' a show that sets out to crown a 'queen,' instead exposes the kitschy simplemindedness of Hollywood fantasy and the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

Reviews of "Commander-in-Chief" mislead; they suggest that this new ABC offering, this electuary of suds and psychologizing, is optional for missus clinton, that Rod Lurie's latest clinton agitprop is nothing more than the icing on missus clinton's inaugural cake.

The reviews miss the point of the show, (i.e., the show is not optional but necessary (though hardly sufficient) if clinton is to prevail), because the reviews fail to identify missus clinton's problem in the first place. And circular reasoning compounds the error.

THE PROBLEM

While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.

These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.

Defeating the enemy on the battlefield isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous, troglodyte mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary, forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."

They turned our bridge to the 21st century into a tunnel back into the 19th century. Back us out of that Republican tunnel, fill it in, go back across the bridge.... We'll have a giant celebration when we come back to Columbus in 2020. There's nothing more wonderful than making dreams come true.

I could say she has all of bill clinton's baggage and none of his charm, except I don't find bill clinton charming. What she lacks, in my view, is lubricant. Snake oil. She grates.

It's more than simple dislike. You don't want to see her; and you definitely don't want to hear her.

Missus clinton is everyman's worst nightmare: ex-wife, fishwife, frigid wife, mother-in-law; worse, the abusive Nazi commandant in the Lina Wertmullermasterpiece. When she humiliates, which is always, she dons the military-issue undershirt, she grabs the whip.

The clintons are clearly aware of this problem and are attempting to mitigate it with veneer.

Their first ploy is to pushpoll to artificially jack up missus clinton's numbers; this is a relatively easy task, given a compliant press. This illusion of electability is intended to fool the voters, activate the herd mentality and ultimately fool the smart money of the David Geffen-Harold Ickes stripe.

It won't work. Missus clinton has 100% name recognition. Any vote she doesn't already have, she won't get. Conversely, many voters have 0% information on the clinton abuses of power and utter failures. From this it follows that many votes she has today, she won't have tomorrow.

Hence, we had the clinton 'infrastructure' interviewer recalculation last week that specified more interviewer gravitas...and less lapdog...but not more doggedness...that is to say...that specified Jeff Greenfield.

A miscalculation, as it turned out. Greenfield made up in contempt what he lacked in inexorability. Although he conducted the entire interview circumambulating on eggshells, Greenfield did eventually ask the hard-boiled questions...

Greenfield's circuitous path to clinton depravity and failure necessitates a nonlinear analysis of the data; we will use a least squares curve fitter. Proportional hazards political survival regression analysis will generate a political survival curve for hillary clinton, which will show her viability (so to speak) over time.

Survival is influenced by one or more factors, called "predictors" or "covariates", which may be categorical (such as the quality of 'infrastructure') or continuous (such as intellect or eloquence or character).

Nonetheless, one of the more significant continuouspredictors of political moribundity is clinton's tic-like insertion of "you know," a marker for ineloquence, vulgarity, ignorance, rube-meets-valley-girl demographics, low self-esteem, anxiety and insincerity.

This legacy confab is in and of itself proof certain of clinton's deeply flawed character, and a demonstration in real time of the way in which the clinton years were about a legacy that was incidentally a presidency.

Madeleine Albright captured the essence of this dysfunctional presidency best when she explained why clinton couldn't go after bin Laden.

Albright explained that a [sham] Mideast accord would yield [if not peace for the principals, surely] a Nobel Peace Prize for clinton. Kill or capture bin Laden and clinton could kiss the accord and the Peace Prize good-bye.

If clinton liberalism, smallness, cowardice, corruption, perfidy--and, to borrow a phrase from Andrew Cuomo, clinton cluelessness--played a part, it was, in the end, the Nobel Peace Prize that produced the puerile pertinacity that enabled the clintons to shrug off terrorism's global danger.

Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks.

Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down?

Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.

... He rips into jokes about President Bush's intellect as "another liberal snig that annoys me a lot these days," adding, "The fact has to be faced: the intellectual candlepower of this administration is a great deal brighter than the Clinton administration . . . [and] the level of professionalism is very much higher."

IF Hitlery gains the RAT Party nomination for the 2008 Presidential Race, I for one, would be compelled to INSIST that Ted Kennedy be brought on board as her personal chauffer. Nothing less would be acceptable.

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posted on 11/13/2005 6:59:16 PM PST
by Howie66
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")

f missus clintonis serious about keeping pornography downloads from our kids, she and that... husband... of hers will upload themselves straightaway to Chappaqua... or wherever... and stay clear of the Oval Office --and the public square-- forever.

The only "Silent Child Care Crisis" I know of is, mama isn't at home caring for her babies - she is out making the $$ to pay for all the government programs for "the child".

Another reason for lack of vaccines is the lawsuit issues. But ol' hillary is out there shrilling away, as only hillary can, screaming at her NY audience that there is not enough vaccine for anyone - meaning ----you all are going to die, thanks to Mr. Bush!!!!

Ready for a woman President, sure, not a problem - just haven't seen one, yet. But if hillary will read the script of the woman tv president she might learn something ---- I heard the tv one say --- I won't compromise, we will dig in Alaska, we can't be dependent on foreign oil!!! couldn't believe my ears. Has to be all for show!!!!

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posted on 11/13/2005 11:22:09 PM PST
by malia
(Marc Rich surfaces again -- this time in the Oil For Food Scandal)

"ASIDE: The tough questioning was followed by Greenfield's sudden, post-interview departure from CNN, a development which will only further reinforce cozy-clintonoid-interviews-of-the-Colmes/King-kind 4th-estate malfeasance."

Geeeeeez. She is a waking nightmare. A genuine ' coast to coast ' psychic vampire. Calling Art Bell....we have a winner!

The only good thing this pathetic robot of a human being has ever done that demonstrates kindness was the dumping the her White House photo-op pet, Socks the cat. Socks acquired a real home as soon as this depraved vulture and her side kick, the raping humpmeister, left the White House. At least hitlery showed some sort of decent behavior by dumping Socks on what's her name, monica's undercover enabler, whatever. Truthfully, I am surprised hill and bill didn't simply drop Socks off along the roadside to their NY home.

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posted on 11/14/2005 6:47:14 PM PST
by Republic
(Michael Schiavo LIED about having a college degree on his guardianship application,)

The White House reported that the clintons' first First Pet, Socks, a cat, greeted the canine acquisition with "a hiss previously reserved only for Ken Starr." Because Buddy remained Socks' nemesis throughout the clinton dog days, Socks was eventually exiled to Virginia, to the suburban home of Betty Currie, former clinton subornee and sex scheduler.

At the time, clinton observed: "I made more progress in the Middle East than I did between Socks and Buddy." Retrospectively, it is clear that clinton's characterization was not correct.

Wednesday, October 7, 1998

Saving Kathleen Willey's Cat

Sometimes a major criminal matter contains a seemingly small detail that upon examination becomes a signature of the entire thing, as in the case of the dog that should have, but didn't bark.

During the 1992 presidential primary season, when the Gennifer Flowers scandal emerged, Clinton aide Betsey Wright was given the mission of traveling to Arkansas to suppress further 'bimbo eruptions.' Just how does one 'suppress' an eruption? With cash? Dirt on the bimbo? Physical threats?

Kathleen Willey has reported that when she went to the Oval Office to ask Clinton to help in finding a job, he groped her, put her hand on his aroused crotch and requested the usual. Willey's account on '60 Minutes' seemed to many persuasive and damaging.

Furthermore, Linda Tripp, working in the White House, had been quoted in Newsweek as saying that Willey had emerged from the Oval Office on that occasion disheveled and flustered.

Recently, Willey reported that her cat has disappeared, her tires have been slashed, and, after that, she was accosted by a stranger on a jogging path. A man ran up to her and asked about her cat, questioned why she didn't 'get it' and suggested that her children might be next.

In the material most recently released by the prosecutors, Monica Lewinshy tells Tripp that she is afraid of her life if word of her affair with Clinton gets out.

After the article in Newsweek, Tripp was involuntarily transferred to the Pentagon, where she both lost her civil-service status and was raised to a higher pay grade. In other words she became vulnerable to dismissal and, due to the higher pay, encouraged to be friendly: stick and carrot.

Fatefully, it was at her new job in the Pentagon that Tripp met Lewinsky, who also had been exiled from the White House. One recalls that Flowers had received a state job in Little Rock over another woman who had superior qualifications.

After Tripp turned over her Monica tapes to the prosecutors, the Pentagon illegally released her personal file to reporters from The New Yorker. This matter has yet to be cleared up, but obviously the orders came from the White House.

Former Clinton strategist Dick Morris, the toe fetishist-turned-columnist, reports that former Miss America Elizabeth Gracen, in return for denying allegations of an affair with Clinton, was offered Hollywood acting hobs through the connections of Clinton crony Mickey Kantor, who also was Clinton's chief trade negotiator. Gracen says that her hotel room was ransacked in what she thinks was an attempt to find incriminating tapes.

According to Morris, longtime Clinton confidant Dolly Kyle Brown has reported numerous attempts to intimidate her into shutting up about an affair with Clinton. And Paula Jones' husband was dismissed from his long-standing job at Northwest Airlines just as the CEO of the airlines was seeking (unsuccessfully) the Democratic nomination for governor of California.

After learning all of this, I thought about Willey's cat and remembered the case of a Little Rock Clinton foe who, though not in possession of a shotgun, found several shotgun shells on the driver's seat of his car.

The Clinton team, to be sure, has not yet been said to have left a horse's head in anyone's bed, but you begin to get the idea.

Dangerous to Clinton at the moment is a sustained effort, reported in the Washington Post, to dig up dirt on potential Clinton accusers.

Morris advises Congress to investigate private eye Terry Lenzner, a former Harvard football player who now specializes in digging up suck dirt for various clients, including supermarket tabloids.

Morris also recommends that Congress look into detective Jack Palladino, who was hired in 1992 to investigate women who might pose a threat to the Clinton campaign. A key question would be about who is paying salaries for these black-bag operations - 'money trail,' as it was called in the days of Watergate.

Lenzner, Morris reports, was granted, without bidding, a contract to train Haitian police, and this deserves investigation. We still don't know who paid the legal bills of Craig Livingstone, the bar-room bouncer who handled the 900 FBI files the Clinton administration had regarding prominent Republicans, an obvious dirt-dredging expedition.

Meanwhile, the Clinton defenders have been insisting that the whole mess is much ado about mere sexual private matters, and much public opinion, inclined to be 'nonjudgemental' about sex, has gone along.

No way, says Judge Robert Bork in the Oct. 12 National Review; lying under oath, indeed, repeated lying under oath in a deposition or before a grand jury, is a public act and a serious attack on the basis of our legal system. Such perjury directly violates the president's constitutional obligation 'to faithfully execute the laws.'

Far from being excused from this obligation by his high office, the presidential oath specifically underlines his constitutional duty:

'I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.' These are solemn public obligations, the violation of which constitutes a direct attack on the body politic.

Thus, Alexander Hamilton, commenting on the grounds for impeachment -- 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -- defined them as public acts.

The grounds are 'offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may, with peculiar propriety, be nominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.'

The 11 counts of impeachable offenses listed by Starr sternly conform to Hamilton's definition, and are entirely public acts.

I would be inclined to include as 'public acts' such private behavior as brings disgrace upon the office of the presidency - weakening it in its public function - and also the kind of sleaze, much of it no doubt criminal, described earlier in this column, in an effort to cover up and intimidate potential accusers.

The president of the United States is not supposed to be some sort of criminal godfather running intimidation and blackmail operations out of the White House, and probably doing so with public money.

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